Kraken: Brutal, Flawed, and Badly Manned (review)
Five young people from a town in Grigny trapped in a tower where each apartment can hide a death trap. A genre film with enjoyable generosity
Two discomforts at the Grand Rex, La Mano which is getting carried away on Insta… two weeks before its theatrical release, Kraken was already refining its future legend. But behind the (micro) buzz, there is still a real gesture. Mohamed Chabane And Théo Jourdain Rhodesdefectors from the series (ReuSSS and Young Millionaires), install their monster not in space or in an isolated cave, but in the heart of a city in Grigny. The Grande Borne bar is therefore filmed like a haunted ship. With its five young people trapped in a tower where each apartment can hide a death trap, here is the new iteration of French horror behind closed doors, somewhere between Vermin and Athena.
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